Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether cockfighting is barbarous and cruel, it is a matter of opinion: we think the same about boxing...
...Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government operation and privateering has entered...
...second constitutional duty imposed upon the President is 'to recommend to the Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' Opinion upon prohibition cuts squarely across the two great political parties. There are thousands of so-called 'wets and drys' in each. The platform of my party is silent upon any question of change in the law. I personally believe that there should be change and I shall advise the Congress in accordance with my constitutional duty of whatever changes I deem 'necessary or expedient.' It will then be for the people...
Furthermore, continued good M. Painlevé, the word war ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance, during peace times, so that in a crisis the very mention of "WAR!!" would shock and arouse public opinion to combat the scourge...
...Minister's rich father (wool) cut him off with $125,000 when he married his present spouse, because she had been twice before a wife. But later a rich sister placed at Son Einstein's disposal for life an income of $20,000 per year. In the opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with her husband through the entire Turkish Revolution of 1908, at which time he was successively Second Secretary, First Secretary and Charge d'Affairs...